Friday, March 15, 2 PM
For next week’s Watch & Wonder Highlight, we’re featuring this episode of Great Performances. After watching, dive deeper with resources about the major composers and characteristics of music of the Romantic period on PBS LearningMedia.
In Now Hear This “Amy Beach: Rise to Prominence”, host Scott Yoo and his wife, flutist Alice Dade, perform the work of Romantic era classical composer Amy Beach at Festival Mosaic and uncover Beach’s many musical influences. Featuring performances of Beach’s works, the duo visits places Beach took inspiration from throughout her life, including an artist residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire, where she wrote “Hermit Thrush at Morn,” “Hermit Thrush at Evening” and more. Along the way, Yoo and Dade also explore the works of European female composers and musicians Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Louise Farrenc, and even stop to discover the music in the vineyards of California.
PBS LearningMedia
Music of the Romantic Period | Music Arts Toolkit
Grades 3-12
William Prinzing Briggs, music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, discusses characteristics of music of the Romantic period, introduces some of the major composers of the period, and introduces a performance of Franz Schubert’s “Death of a Maiden” Quartet in D-minor by members of the youth orchestra.
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